Flora London Marathon
Introduction
MacIntyre Housing Association holds 5 Golden Bond places each year for the London Marathon. Runners with a Golden Bond place are guaranteed entry to the London Marathon. If you would like to apply for one of these places you will need to apply early as competition is fierce!
Obviously, we hope that our runners will raise as much money as possible but at a minimum would ask our runners to raise £1,000.
Our Runners for 2008
Nicola Bradbury
My name is Nicola Bradbury, I'm 48 years old and this will be my first marathon! As a teacher in a Special School, I recognise the importance of MHA's work in providing high quality housing in the community for people with learning disabilities. I am very happy to be supporting them and am certainly looking forward to crossing the finishing line on April 13th!
Kevin Richardson
My name is Kevin Richardson and I am 46 years old. This is my 6th Marathon. I love doing it to raise funds for worthwhile causes. This year I have chosen MHA as it is a small local charity I feel deserves all the support we can help it with. Being such a well deserved cause, I intend to ensure we raise maximum funds and run the marathon in my best time yet!
Leon Pearce
Last year I ran the New York Marathon which I intended as a warm-up for the 2008 London Marathon. I never saw New York as a fund raising opportunity because I didn’t want to dilute the opportunities for sponsorship for the London Marathon. I hadn’t thought too deeply about which charity I would support, there are plenty of worthwhile causes and I knew finding a charity to support would not be an issue.
Then someone suggested I should ask MacIntyre Housing Association if they had a Golden Bond place I could have and suddenly all the pieces fell in place. I am a freelance photographer and for the last two years I have been commissioned by MacIntyre’s design agency to take the photographs for their annual report. The report is very much centred on the services MacIntyre provide and the people who benefit from them so I have met most of the staff and a number of their tenants and been very impressed with what they do.
I went home and talked to my wife about what I was proposing to do and she was also very enthusiastic because, as a speech therapist, she works with some of MacIntyre’s tenants. So from one conversation came the seeds of what will now be a very personal run. I can’t wait to run the Marathon and I will be very proud to be wearing MacIntyre’s colours.
Flora Light Challenge for Women - Kim Wharton
Along with 25,000 other women Aileen, Ann, Kathryn, Mel and Kim took part in the Flora Light Challenge for Women in Hyde Park, London in September 2004. We completed the 5k circuit and raised funds to buy some essential household items for tenants.
